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openChainsaw Murder House/Maze Live Action TV
I believe this was on a TV show when I was a young child. This would have been in the earlier 2000s.
Regardless, I vaguely recall the details of this scene. It opened with a scene of a man who was torturing people with a chainsaw and the lighting was unusual. She eventually escapes that area and goes through a complex set of corridors that is set up as a murderhouse maze. It's similar to the one found on Season 7 of Dexter when Dexter is chased by the axe murderer. There is even a scene where I believe she is chased by a dog and she ends up at some point in a room with hanging dead bodies. I also vaguely recall a scene where someone was on a table going past incinerators. I wish I could be less vague but I haven't been able to recall where this was from.
open'Imagine'-something-or-other Live Action TV
It was a show from around 2009, had a ton of primary-coloured gears. I think it had like 5 men in jumpsuits and lots of doors? It was either on Nick Jr. or Disney Jr. I remember it having 'imagine' in the title somewhere
openA Puppet Show in Medieval Times Live Action TV
There's this show about Puppets taken place in Medieval times, it's antagonist is a force of darkness and there's this one puppet that can transform into an animated vulture.
Do you know that show?
openRemembering a character Live Action TV
I think the character I'm picturing was a puppet. Either that or animated. He was purple, had a big mouth, his head was bigger around his mouth, and he had a tuft of green hair. That's all I got.
openKid thinks mascot dies Live Action TV
I vaguely remember a scene where a mascot/costumed character (the kind with a big head on) gets hurt somehow and a kid (?) thinks the actual character is dead (can't remember what character, it's from real life, don't know why but I wanna say Peppa Pig). The guy inside the costume tells the kid to just take the head off but they don't listen and it looks like the mascot dies. Pretty sure it's a live action comedy TV show, but there's a possibility it could be a cartoon or even from a movie. Could it be South Park??
open2000s kids show Live Action TV
Not remembering the name of this show is driving me nuts. I was a kid in the 2000s watching it, but for some reason I hardly remember anything! I keep having weird flashbacks remembering that there was like a wall of little doors, or cubbies, or drawers, or something, and the main character (real person, not animated) would go and look in them. I have no idea why that’s the only thing I remember! It might have been on treehouse channel or PBS kids or something...
openHolidays Documentary About Toys Live Action TV
Over ten years ago, sometime in the 2000s, I saw a documentary on TV one Christmas but haven't been able to find it on any other Christmas. I don't remember if it was only a hour long or if it was a mini-series. I just remember it discussed the history of various toys, like Silly Putty (?), Barbie, slinkys, and lincoln blocks.
opentv show about internet events and science stuff Live Action TV
so there was this show on qubo i dont remember the name of and all i remember was this girl would discuss popular stuff going around it would have a few science bits and the rest would be jokes tied in the only details besides this are that the name of the show had something to do with web and the host as a black girl who looked to be maybe late teens early twenties and she had a strange last name
openA children's puppet show from the 80s (?) where the main characters are cars Live Action TV
I'm putting this in live action because I believe it was made using puppets, not stop-motion, but I'm not sure. The main characters were all cars, with a gas pump serving as an older mentor figure. I saw a few episodes in the very early 2000s, and it looks like it might have been made any time from the late 70s to the early 90s.
opensomething with a kid who can morph or change his body parts Live Action TV
Ok so all I can guess is the shows from early 2000's all I can remember is its definitely live action, im sure this boy was searching for his missing father with a robot sidekick and some black or hispanic girl, might involve space travel. I know the kid had powers to copy lets say a robots arm for a grapple shooter in place of his own regardless of organic to metal stuff. The villian was deck out in all black possibly full machine, kinda like a rip off darth vader but still imposing. Another tidbit was some fast food place (BK or Mc Donald's) had toys that you could switch out body parts and mix them up and such. PLEASE someones got to know what im talking about I think it used to air on ABC family but im not sure.
openLive action monster family Live Action TV
There was a show that was on VHS tapes when I was growing up, in the early 2000's.
It was about this monster family (a dad, mom, son, and a baby) that was in a sort of claymation or puppet style. They looked like turtle people and lived in a cave with stalactites overhead.
Another note is that the baby sat on a high chair all the time and would throw it's bowl of food
openANOTHER COLD CASE EPISODE Live Action TV
O-k, this one is much easier. I just saw this on You-tube few hours ago and dumb me had to delete my history and cannot remember the episode name. I can provide more info than the other one that I am still looking for, a man is in a house and talks to I think his son, Rudy if I remember right. He asks him why he is not at the school dance or something similar. The young boy's mother (the young boy is a teen) is sitting beside him on the couch, she starts yelling at the man (I do not know if it is her husband, but I think so), the woman has long brownish hair, the man has black hair (I think), nearly bald, he had a walking cane. The woman started going ballistic and accusing the man of pornography, child porn I think. The boy tried to stop her, but she kept pushing him aside. The man was leaving and the woman started shouting and shouting at him. Can anyone please help me? Thanks. This was not a flashback scene if I remember right.
openChildren's show seen in the early 00's Live Action TV
I have a memory of a segment from a children's show that no one in my family seems to remember. I remember the characters of the show walking through a tunnel. It was a natural-looking tunnel, like it was made of light-gray clay. I remember there being arc shapes. I feel like there were two tunnels on either side of the space. They exited from the first tunnel into the space, which was also light gray. It was pretty void-ish. From what I remember, they went into the center of the space between the two ends of the tunnel, and they told a story. I think there was a mix of human and puppet characters or adult and child characters. I think a campfire was involved somehow, and I distinctly remember them using a felt board for the story or lesson. If anyone knows what this could possibly be, I'd love to know. I don't know when the show would have been from because we watched a good mix of shows from the 70s, 80s and 90s when I was a kid.
openInvention vs Invention. Live Action TV
I remember a reality show where they put one extreme inventioninnovation vs another. It was really cool, but I can't remember the name of it. Could somebody help?
I remember that one episode featured linex vs ???, another episode featured a super loud siren vs a super soundproof room.
I also think I saw first it on netflix
Please help, and thanks
openTV from at least 7 years ago about traveling on a budget Live Action TV
There was a show where this man traveled around the world (? or just united states??) with a very restricted budget, and in one episode he made money in a California city by charging people to push them up the hill. The show came out at least 7-10 years ago.
- Also looking for the clip of him pushing people up the hill, but cannot find.
- Also, it's not Madventures. Watched the California episode but the show I'm thinking of was more centered around his travel budget. Like the money he made pushing them up the hill was deducted from the travel balance. More family friendly than Madventures
- There was an episode where he was in Hawaii and lived off the land (I think??)
openSpace show or movie? Live Action TV
While watching the new episodes of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD; the craft they go out on reminded me of something from the 90s or early 2000s. The show it sparked up had 3 teens I believe whom each had their own space craft each with a different colored stripe. 1 was red, 1 blue, and 1 yellow. Sadly that is all I can really recall
openChildren's programming: large puppets, goofy dragon protagonist, set in his room Live Action TV
There is this series of VHS tapes I remember checking out from the library All The Time growing up. The main character was this goofy green dragon who sang about his daily routine. The only visual I remember of it is him sitting in his bed singing with a felt window to the side of him. The objects in his room (i.e. his clock, phone, etc) are sentient puppets who converse with him. I don't believe there are ever real life people involved, but all the characters are puppeteered. Please help! The mascot of my library was a dragon so I always associated it with my library, but I doubt they produced it. Thank you!
openTwo TV-series from late 80s to early 90s Live Action TV
Ages ago I saw two TV shows (possibly mini-series) on Swedish summer TV. Both shows were youth-oriented, and likely from Australia or New Zealand (as was common at the time). This was around 1990-92, absolutely no later than 95. I've been trying to find out what they were for a long, long time now.
1. This show followed a group of kids that were chased by a villain on a motorcycle. The villain wore a black helmet with visor that completely hid his face, and his identity was a mystery. In the final episode he was revealed to be a character seen before in the show, an older man with (I believe) a grey beard. I don't know why he was chasing them. Fairly certain this one was from NZ or Australia.
2. This one was a bit more serious than the former. All I remember is that two teenage boys (I think later teens) were on the run, chased by the authorities this time. In the final episode, one of the boys crashes his car at a construction site/city dump/something like it. There's a shot of him trying and failing to open the door, then the car explodes, killing him. The other boy is taken by the authorities (at a different site) and I think the last shot is of him being driven away in a car. This might even have been an American show.
openReality TV Live Action TV
I remember watching this program about real life accidents in which one of the segments I watched was a man having trouble drilling a hole in a tree in his back. One of his methods was shooting it with a gun, in which the bullet ricochets and hits a woman in the chest. The woman is then seen on a gurney crying in pain where she eventually dies. What show is this from?

I remember as a child I was waiting for my favourite TV show to come on, but the show that was on at that moment was not the one, so I decided to wait through it. I wasn't really watching it so I can't be too specific but every few scenes (I'm sure it happened at least four times, maybe even like ten), the screen would go black and white writing would say (and a monotone voice would read out) "The following scene contains language of a frank and—-*(a whole lot of other stuff I can't remember)*". The only real scene I remember was a man and a woman arguing. The woman was white with dark hair and the man was black and I think he was bald and had a goatee. The man was lying on a couch and acting like he was in pain and the woman was crying, I think.